Teaching assistants at York University in Toronto are on strike after management cut 800 TA posts. TAs are essential for students; they are the ones who actually teach the courses and do the grading rather than the professor. The management are also not doing enough to make the campus safe for women. If these attacks go ahead they will affect everyone at the university – send messages of support to CUPE3903strikecommittee@gmail.com.
Cleaners/Outsourced workers
48 hour strike by RMT cleaners remains solid.
Cleaners working for Initial, a subcontractor of Network Rail ,brought their protest to St Pancras Station early on Thursday morning. The 48 hour stoppage was over pay as they are paid as little as £6.30 […]
Education
NUT strike: March 26 2014
Film length: 10:28 11,000 angry teachers march in London as the NUT take national strike action against Michael Gove’s attacks on education, with calls to escalate the action dominating the day. Teachers are now working […]
Education
Education workers strike over pay – 03.12.13
Film length: 9:16 On their second national day of strike action for a decent pay rise, workers in higher education are joined by workers in further education taking their first day of strike action. Both […]